Travel Blogs from Dumaguete

... and I'm right. Over the next 30 minutes we pick and sometimes drop off passengers until we are full. I have my backpack between my legs and my suitcase next to me. Across from me is a pregnant girl, next to her a young mother and child. At the front and the second to board is a woman who I thought was a man. She is wearing a loose t-shirt and has short hair and jeans.

When passengers want to get off, they tap on the ceiling of the van, usually with the coins they are ...

... there was some pretty amazing road rash on Siquijor this weekend. We did NOT do any skating, but we did rent a motorbike and ride all the way around the island--about 80 kilometers. It is kind of a sleepy-feeling island and it was cool to be out and about at our own speed. We stopped at a Shell "Museum" (more like a shell store) with a very nice proprietor who we talked politics and climate change with for a little while; a picnic and beach spot that ...

... so close to me that I felt myself being pulled by his current. It was an exhilarating experience.

However, there are problems with this that for the moment are not being addressed. The whale sharks are warm water fish, that live world wide in an equatorial ribbon that circles the globe. They rarely wander north or south by more than 20 degrees latitude. What is natural to these guys is that they migrate. At this time, little is known ...

... as well until another fisherman came in on his boat then he sat there for another hour or so as well, possibly the longest 90 minutes of my life. Anyway they finally left and I prepped myself for doing it again, sat up so I was on the balls of my feet, just about to grab the ring from my bag and get down on one knee, when Ange looked up from her book and said "What are you doing? Why are you sitting like that? You're so weird!" Again, moment spoiled.

... accommodation. After a typical Filipino lunch – which as usual involved some pork, chicken and rice - we wanted to bring our dirty clothes for laundry. We thought that the hostel had offered to do the laundry for 80 Pesos a kg which stroke us as a bit expensive and so we had a look around. And indeed we found a laundry place just around the corner who would do the job for 25 Pesos a kg. So we were happy to have saved some ...